Kelly N. Fayard 1 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 kelly.fayard@yale.edu EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Michigan Dissertation: We ve Always Known Who We Are : Belonging in the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Chair: Stuart Kirsch (Anthropology Department) Committee: Gregory Dowd (Program in American Culture and History Department), Gillian Feeley-Harnik (Anthropology Department), Barbra Meek (Anthropology Department) and Tiya Miles (History Department, Program in American Culture, and Afro-American and African Studies Center) Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies 2006 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Michigan 2002 B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Religion, Duke University with Honors and graduation with distinction Senior thesis: Unfeathered: An anthropological analysis of Native Americans in film since 1990 EMPLOYMENT 2015-present Assistant Dean, Yale College and Director of the Native American Cultural Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Director of the Peer Liaison program of Yale College Director of the Mellon Mays Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowship of Yale College Co-organizer, Native American Language Project at Yale 2014-2015 Anne Ray Resident Fellow, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2011-2015 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin College (tenure track), Brunswick, Maine 2010 Head graduate student instructor (GSI) for Introduction to Anthropology, taught honors section for four-field Anthropology 101, University of Michigan 2010 Graduate Student Instructor Mentor, Observed and offered feedback for new Graduate Student Instructors in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan 2007 GSI for Anthropology 101 and Kinship, Social Organization, and Society, University of Michigan 2006 GSI for Native American People of North America and Introduction to Anthropology, University of Michigan 1
2005 GSI for Native American People of North America, University of Michigan 2002-2004 Fourth grade classroom teacher, Atlanta Public Schools RESEARCH INTERESTS Cultural anthropology, identity, kinship and personhood, blood and blood quantum, Native American religion and Native American Christianity, indigenous political movements, museums, NAGPRA, comparative indigeneities, race and stereotypes, development of anthropology as a discipline, race and film, Native Americans in film, anthropology of media RESEARCH EXPERIENCE June 2014-September 2014: Ethnographic fieldwork in Poarch and Atmore, Alabama April 2010-September 2010: Internship at Poarch Band of Creek Indians Museum and Welcome Center January 2008-September 2009: Ethnographic fieldwork in Poarch, Alabama 2004-2005: Internship at Kelsey Archaeological Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan FELLOWSHIPS 2014-2015 School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Anne Ray Resident Scholar 2014 Alternate, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2014 Alternate, Woodrow Wilson Junior Career Enhancement Fellowship GRANTS AND AWARDS 2017 Helped secure over $100,000 in gifts to the Native American Cultural Center 2015 Yale University Spot Award given by Yale College 2014 Grant from Bowdoin Lectures and Concerts Committee for Ellen Block AIDS is a kinship disease Grant from Bowdoin Lectures and Concerts Committee for Lani Teves F You Aloha, I love you Faculty Travel Grant (Bowdoin College) 2013 Faculty Travel Grant (Bowdoin College) Grant from the Office of Academic Affairs for the Bowdoin Native American Film Festival Grant from Bowdoin Lectures and Concerts Committee for Stuart Kirsch lecture Corporate Science 2
2012 Faculty Travel Grant (Bowdoin College) Grant from Bowdoin Lectures and Concerts Committee for Veronica Pasfield lecture Kill the Indian to Save the Man: The Indian Problem and Native American Boarding Schools Grant from Wabanaki Bowdoin Bates Colby (WBBC) initiative for Native American Women in Academia panel 2011 Faculty Travel Grant (Bowdoin College) Grant from Bowdoin Lectures and Concerts Committee for 1491s Humor as Medicine performance Department of Anthropology block grant, University of Michigan 2010 Inducted into Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society 2004-2010 Rackham Merit Fellowship (University of Michigan) 2002 Judith McDade Award in Cultural Anthropology (Duke University) PUBLICATIONS In progress Book manuscript. Fighting to Belong: Race, Kinship, and Community Among the Poarch Band of Creek Indians 2013 Collaboration with Family: Anthropological Work with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Anthropology News. PRESENTATIONS 2018 The Foote School, New Haven, CT, Native American Stereotypes in Elementary Education 2017 Trinity College, Trinity Common Hour, College as Heterotopia: The Role of Difference in Higher Education 2016 Yale University, Yale Mental Health, Native Americans 101 Yale University, Athletics, Native Americans 101 Wellesley College, Anthropology and Indigenous Communities 2015 Organizer and chair for panel, Ethics in the Field: A Conversation on Research and Engagement in Indigenous Communities, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Denver, Colorado Ethics, Engaged Anthropology, and Tribal Institutional Review Boards, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Denver, Colorado 3
2014 Race, Identity, and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Colloquium at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico Chair, Interrogating Key Terms at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Austin, Texas 2013 Poarch Creek Indian Material Well-Being, Quality of Life, and Identity at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois Thinking beyond Blood Quantum: Belonging and Citizenship in the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Alabama at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Saskatoon, Canada Chair, Racism and Colonialism panel at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Saskatoon, Canada Beyond Blood Quantum: Race, Identity and The Poarch Band of Creek Indians presented in the Bowdoin Faculty Seminar series 2012 Replacing the Gatekeepers: Interdisciplinary Activism, Cross Cultural Analysis, and Demanding Better at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, Mohegan Sun, Connecticut 2011 Not About Blood Quantum: Kinship and Discrimination in Defining Poarch Creek Membership at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada 2010 A Case for Shared Ethics: Moving Forward on Repatriation at the University of Michigan at the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) American Indian Studies Graduate Student Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2010 Collaborations In Research at the Michigan Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) for the Impacts of Research on a Diverse Society Research Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2008 Collaboration with Family: Fieldwork on the Poarch Creek Reservation at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, California 2007 Defining Poarch Creek membership beyond blood quantum at the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) American Indian Studies Graduate Student Symposium, Iowa City, Iowa SELECTED TALK/SYMPOSIA/FILM SERIES ORGANIZER 2017 Co-organizer, Henry Roe Cloud Conference and Yale Powwow Organizer, Peer Liaison training 2016 Co-organizer, Native American Heritage Month Organizer, Peer Liaison training 4
2015 Co-organizer, Through Indigenous Eyes: 20 Native Films in Six Days, at Yale University Co-organizer, Native Heritage Month at Yale University 2014 Organizer, AIDS is a Kinship Disease talk by Ellen Block Organizer, F You Aloha, I Love You talk by Lani Teves 2013 Organizer, Native American Film Festival (February-March 2013), Bowdoin College Films and presentations by: Silas Haggerty (Dakota 38) Bennie Klain (Weaving Worlds) Chris Eyre (Edge of America) Organizer, Corporate Science talk by Stuart Kirsch (February), Bowdoin College 2012 Organizer, Indian Boarding Schools talk by Veronica Pasfield (November), Bowdoin College Organizer, Native American Heritage month events (November), Bowdoin College Co-organizer, Native American Women in Academia panel (March), Bowdoin College 2011 1491 s Humor as Medicine: Viral Indians and Social Smallpox (November), Bowdoin College COMMITTEE WORK 2017 Intercultural Affairs Committee, Yale University (2015-present) Indigenous Education, Inc., scholarship distributor for Cobell Education Scholarship Program, board of trustees (2016-present) Committee on Student Grievances, Yale University (2016-present) 2016 First Year Scholars at Yale, Yale University 2013-2014 Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy, Bowdoin College 2012-2013 Advisory Committee for a Diverse Community, Bowdoin College 2012 Hiring committee for tenure-track sociologist, Bowdoin College 2011 Hiring committee for tenure-track anthropologist, Bowdoin College ADDITIONAL TRAINING 2018 De-escalation Training for Student Life at Yale University 5
2013 Participant, Bowdoin/Bates/Colby Mutual Mentorship workshop (May) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Participant, How Learning Works workshop (May) Participant, Bates and Bowdoin Quantitative Reasoning workshop (May) Participant, Safe-space training (March) 2007-2011 Organizer, Rackham Graduate School Interdisciplinary Workshop: Global Indigeneities and Ethical Research 2008 Manuscript Referee, Body and Society TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES Enrolled in the Poarch Band of Creek Indians: Poarch, Alabama 2010-2011 Appointed by the Tribal Council to serve a term on the board of Calvin McGhee Cultural Management Authority (governs the Museum, all cultural classes such as language and arts, cultural events such as the powwow and Calvin McGhee Memorial Day) COURSES TAUGHT Yale University: Contemporary Issues of Native North America Yale and Native North America Required for Bowdoin Anthropology major: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Anthropological Research Methods Bowdoin First Year Seminar: Beyond Pocahontas: Native American Stereotypes Bowdoin Electives: We Are Family: Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship Contemporary Issues in Native North America Not Just Cowboys and Indians: Examining Native Americans in Film and Media Beyond Hollywood We Are Family: Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Anthropological Association American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and its Indigenous Student Affairs Network Committee on Ethics for the American Anthropological Association, 2014-2015 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Society for Cultural Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Religion Society for the Anthropology of North America 6
Museum Anthropology Association for Indigenous Anthropologists Society for Applied Anthropology 7